Saturday, August 31, 2013

Obama has surrendered. NBC reports,
“Obama will seek Congressional approval before any military action
against Syria”. Strikes would be “effective tomorrow or next week or one
month from now,” the President was quoted as saying.

As I wrote
upon hearing that the British had pulled out of his ‘limited but
decisive’ symbolic gesture: “it’s over. … Now, with Britain out of the
operation, Obama faces the prospect of going into Syria almost literally
alone, without the UN, NATO, Congress, or even the UK to back him up.
Two courses are now open to him. He can climb down as best he can and
pretend he’s changed his mind or he can go forward risking a wider war
for nothing.”

It just took him that many more hours to realize that Steiner was not coming.

But the crisis has not yet ended. It’s just moved from Syria to
Washington. There is now a power vacuum in Washington. For either
there’s a new President Obama — one who has learned to share power not
only with the other branches, but also with other points of view within
America — or a new President in the manner of Gerald Ford after Nixon
left. The old omnipotent President Obama, able to make the seas fall,
the child of the world uniquely equipped to build bridges everywhere,
answerable only to himself, is gone.
As America’s leader the old Obama handed Syria, Russia and Iran and
huge victory. Gave it to them on a platter with his vaunting, invincible
stupidity. In the process, not only has he shot America in the foot on
the world stage but he will have emboldened the Ayatollahs to forge
ahead with their nuclear ambitions. He will have encouraged Russia to
make a comeback in the region. We will shortly feel these effects in
Egypt, Iran and even in Europe.

Long-time readers of this website will no-doubt recall the active
killer attack at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, CO in 2007. After
having killed two people and wounding two others at a YWAM training
center, the 24 year-old killer set his sights on New Life Church. What
he did not know was that the flock at New Life had protection from
wolves such as him, in the form of sheepdogs who made up the church's
safety team. Among those sheepdogs was Carl Chinn, author of "Evil
Invades Sanctuary: The Case for Security in Faith-Based Organizations."

While many will recall that the New Life Church attack ended when an
safety team member Jeanne Assam engaged the killer with the 9mm pistol
she had permission to carry in the church, very few may recall that
there were other armed safety team members, including Chinn, on hand
that day. And although initial news reports made mention of this fact,
it's likely that no one who hasn't read the book know the real story
about how this team worked together to prevent a greater loss of life.

Chinn's book begins with a chapter called "The Wakeup Call." The
chapter opens with a chilling account of an armed, shirtless man with
notes scribbled on his body (including instructions on what to do with
his body) walking into the lobby of Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the
Family headquarters in 1996. Chinn worked there, and had been
extensively involved in pre-incident emergency response planning, just
as he was years later at New Life Church, when another armed predator
came calling.

Chinn observes that "security is often not a priority at ministries until something significant happens."
"Fortunately," he adds, "that was not the case at Focus on the Family or New Life Church."

A sword-wielding 33-year-old Rancho Cucamonga man charged deputies
while hollering “Allah Akbar,” sheriff’s officials say, until the
deputies halted him with a blast from a bean bag shotgun.

Montasir Ishag was arrested at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, along the
9400 block of Glenaire Court and booked for investigation of attempted
murder of a police officer, jail records show. His bail is $1 million.

Deputies were summoned to the house at 1:26 p.m. by a caller who said
his son was under the influence of meth and was having a bi-polar
episode, sheriff’s officials said in a written statement.
The caller also said his son had a sword in his bedroom and feared for his safety.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared ‘utter nonsense’ the
idea that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons on its own
people and called on the US to present its supposed evidence to the UN
Security Council.

Putin has further called the Western tactic a ‘provocation.’

Washington has been basing its proposed strategy of an attack on
Syria on the premise that President Bashar Assad’s government
forces have used chemical agents, while Russia finds the
accusations unacceptable and the idea of performing a military
strike on the country even more so. Especially as it would
constitute a violation of international law, if carried out
without the approval of the UN Security Council.

Further to this, Putin told Obama that he should consider what
the potential fallout from a military strike would be and to take
into consideration the suffering of innocent civilians.

The Russian president has expressed certainty that the strategy
for a military intervention in Syria is a contingency measure
from outside and a direct response to the Syrian government’s
recent combat successes, coupled with the rebels’ retreat from
long-held positions.

No attack on Syria then. Of course the only reason is that Obama realized that the world's opinion was against him and chose this way of eating his words. Fine with me as it's none of our business.

President Barack Obama reassured an uneasy nation on Saturday that any
attack on Syria will be limited in scope and will only come after a
debate of the people's representatives in both houses of Congress.

Speaking in the Rose Garden, the president said he had already made the
decision that military action was warranted following a chemical attack
earlier this month that was believed to have been ordered by Syrian
President Bashar Assad.

"In a world of many dangers this menace must be confronted," Obama said,
adding that the attack on civilians "risks making a mockery of the
global prohibition on chemical weapons" and "could lead to escalated use
of chemical weapons."

He said he contacted congressional leaders on Saturday and that they
plan to hold a debate and a vote as soon as Congress comes back in
September.

Colonel
Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts advocated New England’s secession
from the United States in 1804, and creating a “Northern Confederacy.”
He and others viewed this more perfect union as having “all the
advantages which have been for a few years depending on the general
Union [which] would be continued [and] without the jealousies and
enmities that now afflict both, and which particularly embitter the
condition of that of the North.” Notably, the slave-trading States of
Massachusetts and Rhode Island would have been the cornerstone of this
new republic.

“In
the prior history of the country, repeated instances are found of the
assertion of this right [of secession], and of a purpose entertained at
various times to put it in execution. Notably is this true of
Massachusetts and other New England States. The acquisition of
Louisiana had created much dissatisfaction in those States, for the
reason, expressed by an eminent citizen of Massachusetts [George Cabot],
that “the influence of our [the Northeastern] part of the Union must be
diminished by the acquisition of more weight at the other extremity.”

The
project of separation was freely discussed, with no intimation, in the
records of the period, of any idea among its advocates that it could be
regarded as treasonable or revolutionary.

Colonel
Timothy Pickering, who had been an officer of the war of the
Revolution, afterward successively Postmaster-General, Secretary of War,
and Secretary of State in the Cabinet of General Washington, and, still
later, long a representative of the State of Massachusetts in the
Senate of the United States, was one of the leading secessionists of his
day.

Writing from Washington to a friend, on the 24th of December, 1803, he says:

“I
will not yet despair. I will rather anticipate a new confederacy,
exempt from the corrupt and corrupting influence and oppression of the
aristocratic democrats of the South. There will be (and our children, at
farthest, will see it) a separation. The white and black population
will mark the boundary.”

In
another letter, written a few weeks afterward (January 29, 1804),
speaking of what he regarded as wrongs and abuses perpetrated by the
then existing Administration, he thus expresses his views of the remedy
to be applied:

“The
principles of our Revolution point to the remedy – a separation. That
this can be accomplished, and without spilling one drop of blood, I have
little doubt . . . I do not believe in the practicality of a
long-continued Union. A Northern Union would unite congenial characters
and present a fairer prospect of public happiness; while the Southern
States, having a similarity of habits, might be left to “manage their
own affairs in their own way.” If a separation were to take place, our
mutual wants would render a friendly and commercial intercourse
inevitable.

It
[the separation] must begin in Massachusetts. The proposition would be
welcome in Connecticut; and could we doubt of New Hampshire? But New
York must be associated . . . she must be made the center of the
Confederacy. Vermont and New Jersey would follow of course, and Rhode
Island of necessity” [Pickering to Cabot, “Life of Pickering,” pp.
338-340].

Substituting
[Southern States for those Northern States above], we find the
suggestions of 1860-61 only a reproduction of those thus outlined nearly
sixty years earlier.

Such
were the views of an undoubted patriot who had participated in the
formation of the Union, and who had long been confidentially associated
with Washington in the administration of its Government, looking at the
subject from a Northern standpoint, within fifteen years after the
organization of that Government under the Constitution.

His
authority is cited only as showing the opinion prevailing in the North
at that day with regard to the right of secession from the Union, if
deemed advisable by the ultimate and irreversible judgment of the people
of a sovereign State.”

Anderson Cooper and CNN have been caught staging fake news about Syria to justify military intervention.

The primary “witness” that the mainstream media is using as a source in Syria has been caught staging fake news segments. Recent video evidence proves that “Syria Danny”, the supposed activist who has been begging for military intervention on CNN, is really just a paid actor and a liar.

While Assad is definitely a tyrant like any head of state, a US invasion of the country is a worst case scenario for the people living there.

By pointing out that the mainstream media is orchestrating their entire coverage of this incident, we are not denying that there is a tremendous amount of death and violence in Syria right now. However, we are showing that the mainstream media version of events is scripted and staged propaganda.

The following video shows him contradicting himself while off air, and even asking crew members to “get the gunfire sounds ready” for his video conference with Anderson Cooper on CNN.

The three men behind an “open carry” demonstration conducted outside of a San Antonio Starbucks are each facing charges of “disorderly conduct” because some observers reportedly complained about the stunt.

The group posted video of the entire
demonstration, which included a disagreement with police officers, on
YouTube. The men were seemingly well within their rights.

Liberals across America are reported to be aghast at a new survey by
real estate website NeighborhoodScout.com which showed that the
nation’s 25 most dangerous neighborhoods all just happen to be in black
areas.

“Using exclusive data developed by
NeighborhoodScout, and based on FBI data from all 17,000 local law
enforcement agencies in America, we here report those specific
neighborhoods in America that have the highest predicted rates of
violent crime per 1,000 neighborhood residents of all,” that website
reported.

“Violent crimes include murder, forcible
rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault. These neighborhoods are
the epicenters of violence in America, where social issues are likely to
ignite into violence and spread.”

Hey, this could be progress. About time last year,
the Democratic National Convention booed when the platform committee
tried to backtrack and add a mention of God that had been earlier
removed. In Iowa, at least Democrats have gone back to openly praying,
but perhaps they should be hoping that God isn’t listening:

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Laura Ingraham’s radio program that
House Speaker John Boehner’s speakership is in jeopardy if any form of
amnesty, such as the Senate's immigration reform bill, becomes law.

“I’m worried about conference,” Paul said Friday, according to Roll Call.
“The only way to avoid a problem with conference is for the speaker of
the House to say we are not going to conference, and we will not allow a
vote on anything coming out of conference that resembles the Senate
bill, and if there were a much more limited bill that emphasizes border
security first, that we would do that.”

Maybe they could get some help finding these youths if they gave a description'

The original news story from local sources and linked on the Drudge
Report said 12 teens raped two women, aged 32 and 24, Thursday evening
in Wilmington, Del., and police were looking for help in finding the
suspects.

The local Wilmington paper dutifully said the police were searching for “teens” of unspecified race.
Only later was it reported the teens – all believed by police to be between age 12 and 17 – were also black.

Local readers noticed the omission.

“Maybe they could get some help finding these youths if they would
give a description,” said Michael Harmon in the News Journal web site.
“They already know the ages somehow. Whenever they got the ages of these
idiots, maybe someone could give them the race.”

Another commenter, representative of the many people who used to live
in the city but now live in the suburbs, said, “The once great city of
Wilmington has become just another urban jungle … overrun and in many
ways taken over by savages.”

For as far back as anyone can remember, Missouri Baptists have gathered on river banks for Sunday afternoon baptisms.

The preacher leads the new believers into the water, draped in white robes as a choir sings, “Shall We Gather at the River.”

It’s the way it’s been done for generations – baptizing in creeks,
lakes, and rivers “in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit.”

But now the long-cherished tradition of “taking the plunge” has been drawn into a controversy with the federal government.

Many Christians believe the Bible commands new followers of Christ to be baptized immediately after their conversion.

The National Park Service began enforcing a policy recently that
required churches to obtain special use permits in order to baptize in
public waters. As part of the same permit process, the NPS also mandated
that churches give the Park Service 48 hours advance notice of pending
baptisms.

I'm certain I posted something on him years ago on NamSouth, but can't find it.

4 Ronald Reagan historians have slammed the portrayal of former
President Reagan in the movie "The Butler," saying that the 40th
president's "attitudes toward race" as shown in the movie areinaccurate.

They begin the article, "What 'The Butler' gets wrong about Ronald Reagan and race," published in The Washington Post, by recounting instances in Reagan's life when he decried racism and took a stand for the African-American community.

..........every
time you do this, you create 100 more men like me ! You entered my home
illegally without a warrant, searched for things you knew were not
there..... All for what ? I hope while you were tracing the numbers on
my firearms and taking inventory of my ammunition, you realized why they
were there...... IN CASE OF JUST THIS !

WAMC
Al Jazeera America began broadcasting in the U.S. August 20.
Assemblyman Kieran Lalor, a Fishkill Republican, says constituents began
calling and emailing him, saying they were offended that Al Jazeera
programming was part of a basic pre-paid package. He says he then
stumbled across the channel while searching for a Yankees game at a
family barbeque.

Lalor, a Marine Corps veteran of
Operation Iraqi Freedom, says he has written to executives at Verizon,
which is his provider, Comcast, DirecTV, and Dish Network, asking them
to drop Al Jazeera America from their basic cable packages.He says he
purposely chose the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks
as the deadline for cable companies to remove Al Jazeera from the
package.

Lalor says if Al Jazeera America is
not removed from basic cable packages by September 11, he will lead a
boycott of the providers.

The problem is, I don’t like it, first of all I’m rather
dovish, I don’t like what I’m going to say but it’s true. If you
basically put down a red line and say don’t use chemical weapons, and
it’s been enforced in the Western community, around the world–international community for decades – don’t use chemical weapons. We didn’t use them in World War II, Hitler didn’t use them, we don’t use chemical weapons, that’s no deal.
Although we do know that Assad’s father did. And then he goes ahead and
does it. It makes you wonder what the mullahs will do if they have a
couple of nuclear weapons, just a couple. Are they capable of not using
them? And that, of course, you know, I think that everybody talking this
morning is projecting toward that, which is if you can’t use deterrents
the normal way – mutually assured destruction – you can’t say, if you
do this, we’re blowing you up. If that doesn’t work, what does work? And
that’s the problem.

An IRS contractor named Braulio Castillo hurt his foot playing football
in military prep school. He never served in the actual military. Then
one day, decades later, he used it to get preferred treatment in
government contracts. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who lost both her
legs and still could lose her arm from combat injuries, felt that this
might just be a touch inappropriate. It gets amazing around 4:30.

Nearly 80 percent of Americans believe President Barack Obama should
receive congressional approval before using force in Syria, but the
nation is divided over the scope of any potential strike, a new NBC News
poll shows.

The
White House telephone briefing with top members of Congress left many
wanting a lot more details on the mission, as Britain chooses not to
strike. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.

Fifty percent of
Americans believe the United States should not intervene in the wake of
suspected chemical weapons attacks by Syrian President Bashar Assad,
according to the poll. But the public is more supportive of military
action when it's limited to launching cruise missiles from U.S. naval
ships - 50 percent favor that kind of intervention, while 44 percent
oppose it.

The Obama administration’s plan to launch a military strike against
Syria is being received with serious reservations by many in the U.S.
military, which is coping with the scars of two lengthy wars and a
rapidly contracting budget, according to current and former officers.

Having assumed for months that the United States was unlikely
to intervene militarily in Syria, the Defense Department has been thrust
onto a war footing that has made many in the armed services uneasy,
according to interviews with more than a dozen military officers ranging
from captains to a four-star general.

They are falling like flies... following the British vote
not to join Obama in his latest crusade, it s now NATO's turn as
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells Dutch TV2 that "NATO will have no role in any military action in Syria."
Of course, there's still the French; and as Rasmussen notes, should any
retaliatory action take place to endanger NATO member Turkey then the
situation may well change. Quoted as urging a political resolution
rather than military, and supportive of the UN inspectors, Rasmussen
added "A sustainable solution is a political solution. But an international reaction is necessary."

NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, setting the stage for
the defense alliance NATO will have no role in any military action in
Syria.

...

"I predict not a NATO role in what I here call an
international reaction to the regime in Damascus, says Anders Fogh
Rasmussen at a press conference in Vejle.

However, it can change the situation if NATO member Turkey, which
shares a border with Syria is attacked. At present, Nato keen rockets
along the border in order to respond to any aggression.

But even Fogh therefore does not foresee that NATO should play a role,
so he believes that some form of military intervention would be
important to give a clear message that the use of chemical weapons will
not be tolerated.

As scholarly studies and international violent crime stats mount to
show no correlation between gun control and less violent crime, gun
control proponents ignore the science and continue pushing more gun
control and more gun bans.

Are gun control proponents flat-earthers?

After all, just as flat-earthers ignored the discovery that the earth
was round and continued to make explorers fear there was a point where
they would fall off the edge of the world if they went too far in one
direction or another, gun control proponents ignore the science seen
through scholarship and claim gun control is the answer when in fact, it
has been proven part of the problem.

Prime Minister David Cameron's plans to join a potential military strike on Syria
were thwarted on Thursday night when Britain's parliament narrowly
voted against a government motion to authorize such action in principle.

In a humiliating defeat for the
British leader likely to damage Cameron's hopes of being re-elected in
2015 and set back traditionally strong U.S.-UK relations, parliament
defied Cameron by 285 to 272 votes.

If Booth had succeeded in capturing Lincoln in 1864, we might be living in a different world.

Early in the afternoon of July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt entered the
courtyard of the Old Arsenal Prison in Washington, D.C. Behind her
filed three other who had plotted to kill President Abraham Lincoln.

A
sweltering sun beat down on four freshly dug graves and four pine
coffins. Only the day before, Surratt had learned that she would be the
first woman to be executed by the United States government.

Veiled and dressed in black, she swooned after a few steps. Two
soldiers and two priests helped her to the gallows. The hangman bound
her arms and legs. She complained that the ropes chafed. They would not
hurt long, he replied.

As the 42-year-old widow listened to her jailer read her death
sentence, her younger son, the Confederate spy John Surratt, was hiding
at a Catholic priest’s residence in a village northeast of Montreal. The
federal government had offered $25,000 for his capture.

Mary and John Surratt were America’s most famous mother-son criminal
partnership until Ma Barker’s boys shot up the Midwest some 60 years
later. Many denounced her as the temptress who, in President Andrew
Johnson’s words, “kept the nest that hatched the egg” of assassination.
Others insisted she was the innocent victim of the national hysteria
that followed Lincoln’s death. And some despised John as a coward who
left his mother to die for his crimes.

For years now at Alt-Market (and Neithercorp.us) I have carefully outlined the most likely path of collapse to take place within the U.S.,
and a vital part of that analysis included economic destabilization
caused by a loss of the dollar's world reserve status and petro-status.
I have also always made clear that this fiscal crisis event would not
occur in the midst of a political vacuum. The central banks and
international financiers that created our ongoing and developing
disaster are NOT going to allow the destruction of the American economy,
the dollar, or global markets without a cover event designed to hide
their culpability. They need something big. Something so big that the
average citizen is overwhelmed with fear and confusion. A smoke and
mirrors magic trick so raw and soul shattering it leaves the very
population of the Earth mesmerized and helpless to understand the root
of the nightmare before them. The elites need a fabricated Apocalypse.

Enter Syria...

I have been warning about the Syrian
trigger point for a very long time. Syria's mutual defense pact with
Iran, its strong ties to Russia, the Russian naval base off its coast,
the advanced Russian weaponry in it's arsenal, its proximity to
vulnerable oil shipping lanes, all make the nation a perfect catalyst
for a global catastrophe. The civil war in Syria is already spreading
into neighboring countries like Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, and if one
looks at the facts objectively, the entire war is a product of covert action on the part of the U.S. and its allies.

The
U.S. trained, armed, and funded the insurgency using Al Qaeda
operatives. Saudi Arabia has sent funding and arms as well. Israel has
aided the rebels using air strikes within Syria's borders (even though
this means that the Israeli government is essentially helping their
supposed mortal enemies). This war would NOT be taking place today
without the express efforts of the West. Period.

If one takes
more than a brief examination of the Syrian insurgency, they would find
an organization of monsters. Wretched amoral wetwork ghouls whose
crimes have been thoroughly documented, including the mass executions of
unarmed captured soldiers, the torture and beheading of innocent
civilians, the mutilation and cannibalism of dead bodies, and the
institution of theological tyranny on a terrified populace. The U.S.
created and unleashed these demons, and now, we the people are being
asked by the White House to support them through force of arms.

But what is the goal here...?

The
goal, I believe, is to utterly transform the world's political,
economic, and social systems. The goal is to generate intense fear;
fear that can be used as capital to buy, as the globalists call it, a
“new world order”. Syria is the first domino in a long chain of
calamities; what the Rand Corporation sometimes refers to as a
“linchpin”. As I write this, the Obama Administration is moving naval
and ground forces into position and clamoring in a painfully pathetic
fashion to convince the American public that 90% of us are “wrong” and
that a strike on Syria is, in fact, necessary. It appears that the
establishment is dead set on starting this chain reaction and
accelerating the global collapse. So, if a strike does occur, what can
we expect to happen over the next few years? Here is a rundown...

Russia has repeatedly stated that it would consider an attack on Syria as an attack on its national security. China has also strongly cautioned the U.S. against attacking Syria. China and Russia hold a lot of U.S. debt, and could make life difficult for us economically if we unnecessarily anger them

The research findings were not a surprise since I have seen
this type mosque hundreds of times during my research. What was
interesting is theIslamic Center is near Lackland AFB. This is one of the U.S. Military largest training bases. All USAF personnel must conduct their initial training on thisbase.

As we showed mere days ago, it appears the truth of who the real puppet-master in the Middle-East is becoming plainer to see.
The incredibly frank discussion between Saudi's spy-chief Prince Bandar
and Russia's Putin exposed a much deeper plot is afoot and the
following details from the actual people on the ground in the
chemically-attacked region of Syria suggest Obama is playing right into
the Saudi's plan. While Obama is 'certain' that the chemical
attacks took place on al-Assad's orders, as MPN reports, "from numerous
interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their
families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain
rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief,
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the
dealing gas attack."

The narrative for public consumption is well-known and quite clear - it was all as-Assad's fault. And yet...

... from
numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and
their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain
rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief,
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the
dealing gas attack.

“My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.

Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels were killed inside of a tunnel used to store weapons provided by a Saudi militant,
known as Abu Ayesha, who was leading a fighting battalion. The father
described the weapons as having a “tube-like structure” while others
were like a “huge gas bottle.”

The White House announced on Thursday that it intends to “ban almost
all re-imports of military surplus firearms to private entities” through
executive order, which would effectively shut down the 110-year-old
Civilian Marksmanship Program.

In a Fact Sheet
published on Whitehouse.gov today referencing the upcoming executive
order the ban on importing military weapons is designed to “keep
military-grade firearms off our streets.” Exceptions for import may be
allowed for museums.

The CMP tightly controls the distribution of obsolete military
weapons. The program was created by the U.S. Congress as part of the
1903 War Department Appropriations Act with the purpose of allowing
civilians to hone their marksmanship skills, should they later be called
into military service.

Conservative GOP lawmakers have taken steps to diminish the influence of
the Heritage Foundation, barring the conservative think tank's employees
from participating in planning meetings.

House Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise informed
Heritage officials last month that they would no longer be welcome at
the group's weekly gatherings, a decision that ended a decades-long
working relationship, reports The National Journal.

HSLDA Founder and Chairman Mike Farris meets with the Wunderlich family
during the Global Home Education Conference held in Berlin, Germany in
October 2012. Farris is asking homeschoolers to contact German officials
on behalf of the Wunderlichs.

At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a
“brutal and vicious act,” a team of 20 social workers, police officers,
and special agents stormed a homeschooling family’s residence near
Darmstadt, Germany, forcibly removing all four of the family’s children
(ages 7-14). The sole grounds for removal were that the parents, Dirk
and Petra Wunderlich, continued to homeschool their children in defiance
of a German ban on home education.

The children were taken to unknown locations. Officials ominously
promised the parents that they would not be seeing their children
“anytime soon.”

HSLDA obtained and translated the court documents that authorized
this use of force to seize the children. The only legal grounds for
removal were the family’s continuation of homeschooling their children.
The papers contain no other allegations of abuse or neglect. Moreover,
Germany has not even alleged educational neglect for failing to provide
an adequate education. The law ignores the educational progress of the
child; attendance—and not learning—is the object of the German law.

There has been a lot of discussion that the President hasn’t even
spoken to Congress on Syria, let alone brought the matter to Congress
for approval, as is required by the Constitution. Remember this tweet from Ted Cruz yesterday?

So last night there was an administration conference call with several Congressional leaders to “consult”.

Even the most basic of town hall meetings is required to follow the
Sunshine Law. The discussion was unclassified. So why is this not before
the rest of Congress in a open public meeting?

We have discussion of how we will strke, leaking like a sieve, but
discussion about why, being conducted in the dark. Even Britain realized
the necessity of bringing the matter to Parliament for an open
discussion. And they don’t have our Constitution.

Two suspected robbers left the scene of
their own crime looking like the victims of a brutal attack after their
would-be victims fought back.

Johnny Calderon Jr., 19, and Gerald
Allen, 18, attempted to rob two University of Virginia students at
gunpoint, which turned out to be a huge, painful mistake, according to
police in Charlottesville, Va.

Besides litigation, the administration is working behind the scenes
by offering local governments “guidance” on passing measures banning
criminal background checks. The laws are known as “ban the box” because
they call for removing the question and check box that asks candidates
if they’ve been convicted of a crime. So far three states have
passed laws prohibiting employers from asking about criminal history
and dozens of municipalities nationwide—including those in Ohio, Texas,
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware—have done the same, according to a
nonprofit that advocates for workers’ rights.

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.